Re: [Evolution] Wishlist: override content-transfer-encoding

[Not Zed <notzed ximian com>]

> Think again. Adding mime structure, Evo took into consideration the
> transfer-encoding header that was previously in the body, now in the
> headers section of a mime part.
Your changes are wrong anyway, you've converted an rfc822 message part into a text/plain part inside a multipart/mixed.

You've converted:
  message/rfc822
    text/plain ('incorrectly' - since its actually a message)

Into:
  message/rfc822
     multipart/mixed
       text/plain encoding=qp (again incorrectly, since its actually a message)

Which isn't correct either.

Either:
 1. what you have received originally is actually correct and intended - although the content may be viewed as a message, it is also legal text/plain content.
 2. the original mailer should have attached it as a message/rfc822 part instead.

i.e.
  message/rfc822
    message/rfc822
      text/plain encoding=qp

is probably the correct, intended structure.

or maybe
  3. some broken list or spam/virus checker is wrecking the mail, although i find this highly unlikely given the structure of the message.

To be able to manipulate a message at such a level is 'messy at best', and not really practical. Overriding the charset is one thing, since it applies to all parts, overriding content-types on specific parts is not likely to be easy to implement.

> It's my fault in a way, because the diff had too little context:
>
> diff -U 8 /tmp/saved-mail.orig /tmp/saved-mail
> --- /tmp/saved-mail.orig	2004-11-03 20:12:11.000000000 +0100
> +++ /tmp/saved-mail	2004-11-03 20:00:09.615993628 +0100
> @@ -29,18 +29,20 @@
>  List-Id: EFNs fritt tilgjengelige postliste <efn-listen.ifi.uio.no>
>  X-MailScanner-Information: This message has been scanned for viruses/spam.
>  	Contact postmaster uio no if you have questions about this scanning
>  X-UiO-MailScanner: No virus found
>  X-UiO-Spam-info: not spam, SpamAssassin (score=0.295, required 12,
>  	DRUGS_MUSCLE 0.01, NO_REAL_NAME 0.28)
>  X-Evolution-Source: pop://enrio pop online no
>  Mime-Version: 1.0
> +Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="=-p4ZKeD6jFQt+DoMSozvJ"
>  Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit
>  
> +--=-p4ZKeD6jFQt+DoMSozvJ
>  From: xyz xyz xy (Robert Sund)          <-----------Originally body started here
>  Date: Tue, 2 Nov 2004 17:54:28 +0200
>  Message-ID: <1gml6c0 apiuti7uo11dM%xyz xyz xy>
>  MIME-Version: 1.0
>  Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1
>  Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable <-------This line now becomes a header
> ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^         affecting the 'part' body below
>  User-Agent: MacSOUP/2.6.1 (Mac OS X version 10.3.5)
>
> @@ -328,8 +330,9 @@
>  Ett godt utbygd "bredb=E5ndnett" for ="" =E5pne for en st=F8rre bredde av
>  samarbeidsformer, som eksempelvis videokonferanse.
>  
>
>  --=20
>  Robert Sund
>  
>
> +--=-p4ZKeD6jFQt+DoMSozvJ--
>
>
> >  You had to change
> > the mime structure altogether
>
> A way to add mime structure was one of my proposals.
>
> Cheers,
> Enrique
>
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